We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
ALAN KINGThen, of course, you’re hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
More Alan King Quotes
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That’s the great thing about New Year’s, you get to be a year older.
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it’s hard to turn away.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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It’s not easy being a father, but I’ve been allowed a comeback.
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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody?
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Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore’s program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
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You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.
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We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house.
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An old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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